Industry committee  I would suggest that CRA has had issues where people donated wonderful pieces of art, had them priced and whatnot, and then there were all sorts of issues with authenticating whether or not that was the correct price. Ultimately, you're asking government to actually enforce a pol

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll actually pick up with Mr. Yazbeck on exactly that, this artist resale right. It's not a new idea. Earlier in your presentation you did talk about the exemption being arbitrary. You just mentioned that picking a date in the 1980s was simply drawing a li

Industry committee  I guess that works in that specific case. However, what we've heard from many witnesses is that in their space, where they're operating outside of Quebec, in some cases they may write into the contract between the company and the person who is producing the work, whether it be

Industry committee  In many cases, there are certain styles that are taught, and someone will say that's been incorporated by someone else. The question is, “Where does it end?”

Industry committee  We sometimes need to look at what we operate. I'm sure people in the dance movement would say that various artists at various times inspired them, but their work is new, and many other people would say you're just adding your own flourishes to it. I see that as a very dangerous s

Industry committee  —because again, it's the human body. It's art in the moment, and I don't think anyone should be able to say that movement is mine, or that series of movements is mine, because that's basically martial arts, to a large extent. We've heard some testimony that groups of artists wou

Industry committee  Does any other jurisdiction offer that? I'm concerned about the complexity of tracking that, and also that it may push away a lot of legitimate activity that is being filmed here in Canada where you have artists, dancers, composers and sound producers who are compensated for that

Industry committee  I'd like to thank all of our witnesses for being here today and specifically for sharing some of their viewpoints. Ms. Cornell, I want to thank you for your analysis. I actually used to run a martial arts school, and next door was a ballet school. You commented on tariffs and th

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Yes, there's an exemption for sound recording, but it sounds to me as if there's an established practice in your industry of people being paid for the use of work.

Industry committee  Again, some artists are asking for there to be a continual stream of income from the repeated use of sound recordings.

Industry committee  In regard to the machine learning, I'm just going to throw this out to Element AI. Obviously, it sounds as if there is an unlevel playing field with Japan and the United States for the certainty that you're asking for. We also have another group that's made a briefing available

Industry committee  Okay. I really wonder what the AIs would learn, though, listening to all of our debates.

Industry committee  I appreciate that. Thank you.

Industry committee  I appreciate that, Mr. Chair. I will just go straight to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. Video streaming is a huge market right now. We see twitch streamers getting viewer numbers that many TV shows would be envious of. Streamers are making money from playin